Kamen Rider Zi-O, Dimensional Descent

"Rider Time! Kamen Rider! Geiz!"

When he came to his senses, Gates had changed completely.

He was dressed in deep red armor, and there were yellow three-dimensional characters on the front of his mask.

What?! What happened?!

"Let's go!"

Gates roared and charged straight toward Aureos.

Although he was completely taken aback, Touma Kamijou forced himself to accept the situation.

"Why does this thing look like something I've seen in a tokusatsu show on TV before?"

In short, stopping that magician is the top priority right now.

Kamijou Touma also snapped out of his daze and rushed forward.

"Humph."

Despite the two intruders attacking him, Aureos simply stood there, unmoved.

No.

He spoke quickly, uttering a single sentence.

"Countless spinning throwing knives appeared around me and were launched at top speed."

what?

As Aureos spoke, countless golden throwing knives actually appeared around him.

They attacked the two of them with overwhelming speed.

When Touma saw this, his pupils shrank in shock, while Geiz rushed forward without any fear.

Clang clang clang—

Using his thick armor, he deflected the incoming throwing knives.

"I will appear behind the intruder just as their attack is about to hit me."

boom--

Gates raised a punch instantly at the magician in front of him.

However... the attack missed, and the enemy disappeared without a trace.

"Behind you!"

Touma Kamijou's voice came from behind him.

When Gates turned around, Aureos was already holding something tightly in his hand.

Clang—!

At that moment, Gates' body was slightly pushed back.

That was a knife... a seemingly ordinary knife, so why did it possess the destructive power to defeat Gates?

"I will create several pistols around me, which will be fired as spinning knives to pierce the enemy's body directly."

"Tsk!"

Reality was just as Aureos had predicted; countless gun barrels appeared before him, and throwing knives were once again fired at them.

Touma Kamijou quickly used his right fist to strike the throwing knives directly.

Disappeared.

Anything created using magic… no, anything formed with supernatural power, would be erased by the boy's right hand.

This is the power called Imagine Breaker.

"Using a radius of 20 centimeters around me as the origin, I instantly release a shockwave capable of blasting everything away."

"Drink up—!!"

Kamijou Touma charged forward with his right fist clenched, and at that moment, a powerful, invisible shockwave exploded around Aureolus.

boom--!

A sound rang out.

The boy crushed the impact with his right hand, and Gates took the opportunity to kick Aureolus in the abdomen.

"—Then, just before I am attacked by the enemy, I will teleport to another location in the room."

"what?"

Both Touma Kamijou's punch and Geiz's kick missed their mark.

Aureos stood not far away again.

Moreover, he was also tightly gripping two pistols whose bullets were blades.

"Next, the blades I unleash will have the ability to ignore all defenses; they will easily sever the hateful heads of the intruders!"

"Danger!"

Gates had just noticed that the boy's right hand could neutralize the enemy's magic.

However, at such close range, even with his right hand, Touma Kamijou couldn't dodge the attack.

Using his superior mobility, Gates pushed Touma Kamijou to the ground.

In that instant, all the blades had flown out.

Then—it completely pierced through Gates' armor.

It didn't tear through with sheer force, but rather, like a phantom, it completely ignored the armor itself.

A sharp pain suddenly shot through my right shoulder.

Gates quickly rolled away. His system showed that there was a cut on his right shoulder, but the armor itself was intact.

"Just as that guy said, the attack just now completely ignored my defense...!"

In this way, Gates was practically naked in front of Aureos.

"Based on the previous instructions, create dozens more identical throwing knives in front of me and pierce through the enemy's body!"

Bang bang bang bang—Countless flying knives instantly appeared around Aureos, attacking the two of them with overwhelming speed.

boom! !

This time, it's Touma Kamijou's turn to protect Geiz.

He quickly used his right hand to deflect most of the magic, but the vast majority of the throwing knives still came flying at him.

In that instant, Gates immediately drew his weapon, the Time Axe, and swung it horizontally into the air.

The crimson impact completely crushed the incoming throwing knives.

But right after that moment... even more throwing knives came flying at the two of them again.

Gates repeatedly used his blade to deflect the enemy's throwing knives, but the speed at which the enemy created the knives far exceeded the speed at which he swung his weapon, and thus they continued to fly towards Gates faster and more accurately.

In an instant, Gates was attacked from every angle.

He quickly threw out the Time Axe in his hand as a final act of atonement.

"Could you cover for me?"

"Cover? What are you going to do?"

Touma Kamijou hurriedly asked Geiz, but he didn't respond. The spiky-haired boy could only use Imagine Breaker to deflect the opponent's attacks.

At this point, Gates had already taken out a brand new watch face.

"Ghost!"

"Armor Time! Open your eyes! Ghost!"

Orange-black armor clung to Gates' entire body like a ghost.

Gates touched the ground with his toes and slowly floated up from the ground.

Then—his body instantly became completely transparent.

"what?!"

This scene startled Touma Kamijou.

However, Gates didn't care about that. He quickly caught the Time Axe that had just flown out and used a pure shockwave to neutralize the large wave of attacks in front of him.

This time it's completely different.

Gates completely ignored all the incoming weapons, easily passing through the barrage while deflecting the attacks.

Relying on Ghost's spiritual form, he no longer needs the armor's defense; instead, he becomes immune to all physical attacks from enemies, just like a ghost.

Aurelius stood still.

Gates moved through the swarm of weapons at incredible speed, and the instant he reached them, he materialized again.

"Haa!!"

With a powerful punch, he slammed it head-on into Aureos's body.

Frontal hit.

Gates's power, inhabited by a spirit, destroyed Aureolus's physical body from the inside, but—

"it's a pity."

Despite being hit, Aureos's expression remained completely unchanged.

It even turned into a pool of golden liquid in front of Gates.

"That was just a clone. You've been fooled."

This time, the sound came from not far away.

Even more amazingly, when Gates turned his head again—the entire room had become incredibly spacious.

It was as if space had been forcibly expanded.

"Follow my orders! Create dozens of massive trucks in this space to completely crush the enemy before you!"

Aureos suddenly took a golden pointer out of his pocket and plunged it into his neck.

Before the two could even react to the reason for his action, countless trucks were already falling towards Touma Kamijou.

"Oops!"

The truck itself is a reality created by magic, so Touma Kamijou can erase it with a single touch of his right hand.

However… given the sheer size of the area, even if they manage to take down one truck, the explosions caused by the remaining trucks falling down will still drag Touma Kamijou into the chaos.

The entire room has been completely changed... it's not the same space as before.

In such a critical moment—

A dark blue shockwave directly blocked all the trucks in mid-air.

It's Gates.

He manipulated gravity by drawing upon the power of Newton's spirit, thereby controlling the movement of all the trucks.

"Go and support that guy!"

Gates made a hand seal in front of his chest, and then the souls of fifteen heroes flew out.

The great men instantly smashed all the trucks in the air and, under Gates' control, flew directly towards Aureolus.

"As per my instructions."

Just as he was about to be hit.

"All the ghosts in this room—have vanished."

Bang--!!

Whether it was the souls of the fifteen great men or the spirit form of Gates, they all returned to their original forms at this moment.

Gates's spiritualization was forcibly canceled, while the souls of all the great men... simply vanished on the spot.